Police applicants under the quota of Cebu City will have to undergo thorough screening and interview by the Police Coordinating and Advisory Council (PCAC).
Interview started last Monday and PCAC is now trimming down the list of applicants according to Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella, who heads PCAC.
There are 112 applicants for final interview but Cebu City only has a quota of 50 for this year’s recruitment of the Philippine National Police.
A PCAC endorsement is among the requirements for applicants from Cebu City.
The applicants will be interviewed by a panel composed by Labella, Department of Interior and Local Governmet (DILG) Cebu City Director Danilo Almendras, a representative from the CCPO, a non-government organization lawyer and a representative from the business sector.
Labella said PCAC is also conducting trainings with barangay tanods, especially in mountain barangays, to help maintain peace and order in the city.
“The tanods need to be trained on crime prevention, warrantless arrest, and preservation of crime scenes,” he added.
The PCAC also passed a resolution to urge the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and owners of universities to add more subjects to enhance language proficiency and communication skills in the curriculum of the criminology course.
“I noticed during our interviews that graduates of Criminology courses lack communication skills. This is important since language proficiency is also needed especially in drafting reports,” Labella said.
While majority of the applicants are criminology graduates, Labella said there are also some applicants who are graduates of nursing. A handful are females.
Meanwhile, the Cebu City Council is expecting a crime analysis report from the CCPO today.
“We requested from CCPO chief Col. Romana for a crime analysis report. According to Supt. Arnel Banzon, they are still preparing it and he’s going to submit it tomorrow (today),” said Labella.
During the session last week, Labella rose to a privilege speech asking the city councilors to craft laws and legislation that can help support peace and order in the city.
This, after Labella said there has been a significant increase of street crimes in the first quarter of 2014 compared to that of the last quarter of 2013. Statistics rose from 477 to 771 street crimes.
However, CCPO earlier clarified that there may have been some discrepancies in the crime incidence report they gave.
Labella said he was told by Banzon, who is the CCPO’s deputy city director for administration, that the numbers may decrease.
“We have to peruse the crime analysis report before we conduct the executive session with CCPO officials and the council members,” Labella said.
The executive session is scheduled on Monday to discuss how the City Government can help the CCPO.
The council wanted the CCPO to classify the crimes recorded as crimes against property (theft, robbery), crimes against persons (murder, injuries), crimes against chastity (rape, acts of lasciviousness) or index crimes (like illegal drugs and firearms which are punishable by special penal laws).
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